Trinity Portland Cement Co. v. Lion Bonding & Surety Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Third Supreme Judicial District. Suit by the Trussed Concrete Steel Company of Texas and others against the Hess & Skinner Engineering Company and the Lion Bonding & Surety Company, in which the Trinity Portland Cement Company and another intervened. Judgment for plaintiffs and interveners was reversed and rendered in part and affirmed in part by Court of Civil Appeals (204 S. W. 1176), and the named in-tervener brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKittrell, J.
The briefest possible condensation of the record that is consistent with clearness reveals the following facts:(1) That Hess & Skinner, a corporation, of Dallas, Tex., by an instrument bearing no date, so far as the record reveals, but which in the bond hereinafter referred to, is referred to and recited as having been executed May 20, 1914, contracted to build two certain bridges for the city of Belton across-Nolan creek in said city, and the Lion. Bonding & Surety Company became surety on the bond required by the city for the performance of the contract.(3) On trial the plaintiff and…
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